[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 175 (Monday, September 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47510-47511]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22865]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket Nos. ER96-1663-000, EC96-19-000 and EL96-48-000]


Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Diego Gas & Electric 
Company, Southern California Edison Company; Notice of Speakers and 
Panels for Technical Conference

August 30, 1996.
    As previously announced (61 FR 42878 (Aug. 19, 1996)), the 
Commission Staff will convene a two-day technical conference in the 
captioned proceedings to be held on Thursday, September 12 and Friday, 
September 13, 1996, at the offices of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20426. The technical 
conference will commence at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 12, 1996. 
The starting time for the second day of the technical conference, 
Friday September 13, 1996, has been changed to 9:00 a.m. The technical 
conference will be open to all interested persons.
    More interested persons desired to speak at the technical 
conference than the time allotted would have allowed. Therefore, based 
on the requests to participate, the Commission Staff has assembled 
panels of speakers representing a broad spectrum of interests and views 
for each panel. A list of the speakers and panels for the technical 
conference is contained in the Attachment.
    For Further Information Contact:

Stephen T. Greenleaf, Office of Electric Power Regulation, Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC 
20426, (202) 208-0430
David E. Mead, Office of Economic Policy, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208-
0438
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.

Panels for Staff Conference on WEPEX

    Each panelist should plan on a five minute presentation followed by 
questions from the Commission Staff.

Thursday, September 12, 1996 Agenda

Panel 1--Market Power
    The panelists will discuss the market power analyses presented by 
the applicants, including related topics, such as the role of demand-
side bidding; effect of any performance-based ratemaking; the role of 
the power exchange; the appropriate monitoring program; any mitigation 
measures that may be needed; and the effect of zones on market power; 
as well as other issues concerning market power that participants wish 
to address.

Joe D. Pace, for Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Paul Joskow, Elizabeth and James Killian, Professor of Economics and 
Management, Head, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, for Southern California Edison Company
William Hieronymus, for San Diego Gas & Electric Company
Scott Hempling, Toward Utility Rate Normalization
Evelyn K. Elsesser, Energy Producers and Users Coalition
Dennis W. Carlton, for Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Sara D. Schotland, Electricity Consumers Resource Council
Lunch
Panel 2--Transmission Pricing
    The panelists will discuss transmission pricing issues, including 
cost recovery and access charges; market efficiency, cost shifting; 
congestion management issues; ancillary services and losses issues; and 
the appropriate use of zones.

Stephen J. Metague, Manager of Grid Customer Services, Pacific Gas & 
Electric Company
Maureen Palmer, Bulk Power Special Projects, Los Angeles, Department of 
Water and Power
Barbara Barkovich, for California Large Energy Consumers' Association
Clifford B. Rochlin, Market Advisor, Southern California Gas Company
W. Kent Palmerton, Manager of Industry Restructuring Programs, Northern 
California Power Agency
Larry Klein, City and County of San Francisco, California

Friday, September 13, 1996 Agenda

Panel 3--Transmission Expansion and Transmission Rights/TCCs
    The panelists will discuss transmission expansion issues, including 
who builds and pays for new facilities and the proper incentives to 
ensure that necessary new transmission facilities are constructed. The 
panelists will also discuss physical transmission rights and role of 
financial instruments, i.e., Transmission Congestion Contracts (TCCs). 
The Commission staff is interested in comments addressing the 
interaction of proposed WEPEX transmission rights and TCCs with the 
Commission's pending CRT proposal.

Geoff Gaebe, Group Manager, San Diego Gas & Electric Company
Ron Nunnally, Manager of Grid Planning and Strategy, Southern 
California Edison Company
Jeffrey K. Hartman, Director, Wholesale, Cogeneration and UEG Segments, 
Southern California Gas Company
Robert A. Levin, Senior Vice-President of the New York Mercantile 
Exchange
Keith McCrea, California Manufacturers Association
W. Kent Palmerton, Manager of Industry Restructuring Programs, Northern 
California Power Agency

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Panel 4--ISO Facilities and Operations
    The panelists will discuss the transmission/distribution split; 
what control will be transferred from utilities to the ISO; the ISO's 
integration of national, regional and individual transmission owner 
operational criteria; and the incentives the ISO will have to achieve 
operational efficiency.

Dennis N. Benevides, Senior Transmission Planning Engineer, Pacific Gas 
& Electric Company
Sohrab A. Yari, Transmission Planning Supervisor, San Diego Gas & 
Electric Company
Armie Perez, Manager of Transmission Planning, Southern California 
Edison Company
Marcie Edwards, Director of Bulk Power, Los Angeles Department of Water 
and Power
Chris Kiriakou, Assistant General Manager of Energy Resources, Turlock 
Irrigation District
Jeffrey C. Miller, Supervisor of Transmission Planning for the 
Sacramento Municipal Utility District and Chairman of the Western 
Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC) Reliability Subcommittee
Lunch
Panel 5--Scheduling, Bidding, Settlements and the Role of Scheduling 
Coordinators
    The panelists will discuss the integration of PX bidding and 
bilateral schedules; the types of information that should flow among 
the PX, ISO and scheduling coordinators; the advantages and 
disadvantages of ISO/PX separation; unit commitment decision making; 
ancillary services issues; must-run and overgeneration criteria.

John Ballance, Manager of Grid Dispatch, Southern California Edison 
Company
Susan J. Mara, Director of Transmission Policy and Pricing, Pacific Gas 
& Electric Company
Eric C. Woychik, Utility Consumers' Action Network
Jan Smutny-Jones, Executive Director, Independent Energy Producers 
Association
Thomas Beach, for Watson Cogeneration Company
Barbara Barkovich, for California Large Energy Consumers Association

[FR Doc. 96-22865 Filed 9-6-96; 8:45 am]
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